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Im a senior in college and where I go there are requirements that we have to take 7 writing intensive classes in our 4 years of school. For us the writing intensive parts mean that we have to write 5-6 papers or at max 10-15 pages. I have 3 writing intensive classes and one that I feel should be a writing intensive class.

I was just wondering if anyone else had this type of thing in college and what their criteria were for this particular type of class.

ninja143 wrote:I have 3 writing intensive classes and one that I feel should be a writing intensive class.

I'm smurfing a hard time understanding the way you smurf.

Nope. Haven't written an essay for a class in almost two years.

Being a physics major is pretty awesome, except for this fucking stat mech homework I've been doing all damn day.

I only have to take three English classes in college, two of which I'm already done with (4 essays each with 3-6 pages per), and the 3rd I'm in now, which is Technical Writing, so instead of writing essays, I'm writing manuals! (I'm a comp sci major, I hate writing)

I can't fathom the words "Writing" and "Intensive" existing anywhere within the same vicinity as one another. Then again, I've written 56 pages of diatribe in a single night, so...

Kablizzy wrote:I can't fathom the words "Writing" and "Intensive" existing anywhere within the same vicinity as one another. Then again, I've written 56 pages of diatribe in a single night, so...

Writing is so easy when it's something you care about, it doesn't count as work.

I've got what I thought were obnoxious writing requirements, but 7 writing intensive classes is ludicrous if you're not, like, majoring in literature or something.
I need to take two levels of "composition" courses (which aren't considered "intensive"), and one writing intensive course after that. I'm actually taking the writing intensive course this quarter, and it's really the best I could have hoped for. It's called Technical Writing for Engineering Majors.

Kablizzy wrote:I can't fathom the words "Writing" and "Intensive" existing anywhere within the same vicinity as one another. Then again, I've written 56 pages of diatribe in a single night, so...

Hot damn, 56 pages? Without using copy + paste?

I got most of my "writing intensive" courses done with in high school, and since I'm an engineering major there's not a lot of writing requirements anyway. I've taken one History class and one English class which were "writing intensive", and now I'm done with writing.

987654321 wrote:

Kablizzy wrote:I can't fathom the words "Writing" and "Intensive" existing anywhere within the same vicinity as one another. Then again, I've written 56 pages of diatribe in a single night, so...

Hot damn, 56 pages? Without using copy + paste?

Mmhmm, that was my anti-anon rant back on the old forums. Came out to just around 56 pages after all was said and done.

None of you are like me. :(

I have to take two Composition courses, the first of which I'm taking right now. It consists of 4 essays in the semester and they're only about 800 words each. I agree with just about everyone else; if you're not majoring in an English-related subject, that's insane.

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:I have to take two Composition courses, the first of which I'm taking right now. It consists of 4 essays in the semester and they're only about 800 words each. I agree with just about everyone else; if you're not majoring in an English-related subject, that's insane.

800 words? Seriously? Are you jocking me? That's virtually nothing.

bobaga_fett wrote:

ＭＡＸＸＸＯＮ wrote:I have to take two Composition courses, the first of which I'm taking right now. It consists of 4 essays in the semester and they're only about 800 words each. I agree with just about everyone else; if you're not majoring in an English-related subject, that's insane.

800 words? Seriously? Are you jocking me? That's virtually nothing.

I agree. And yet, whenever I actually have to write 800 words, it seems like the most daunting task of my life every single time. :(

I don't understand how people complain of 800 word papers unless they're under the age of 13. Or are complaining that they are having a hard time limiting themself to 800 words.

Writing 800 words isn't a problem. Finding the motivation to write 800 words when I can quite easily summarize everything I'm supposed to write about in 100 or less is the problem. Pretty much every English course I've ever taken seems to be of the opinion that brevity is the devil's work.

I could write 800 words *right now*. If I have to provide a synopsis of something I know nothing about/don't give a shit about/can't provide opinion on, it's brutal.

smartalco wrote:Writing 800 words isn't a problem. Finding the motivation to write 800 words when I can quite easily summarize everything I'm supposed to write about in 100 or less is the problem. Pretty much every English course I've ever taken seems to be of the opinion that brevity is the devil's work.

Those are some of the truest words I've ever read.

I consistently write much less than the word count and sign all of my papers with Mark Twain's "If I would have had more time, I'd have written less." And this works because everybody already knows how eccentric I am.

Kablizzy wrote:I could write 800 words *right now*. If I have to provide a synopsis of something I know nothing about/don't give a shit about/can't provide opinion on, it's brutal.

That's the problem. I never give a shit about anything I'm supposed to write about.

my film studies A level was the most writing i've ever done for a class, and that only had a few actually important essays. I might have done around 20 over two years all said and done, ranging between 1000 and 1800 words. And the biggest one i did was a 1950 word film script, which I really enjoyed writing.

In my spare time i've written around 40,000 words on a few incomplete novels (one of which is still in progress at around 18,000).

Now i'm doing a computer games development programming course, however, and so will not be writing essays for quite some time. Hooray!

The most writing I've ever done is a 2000 word essay on the legalization of pot for a basic American Government class. Other than that, the only occasion I can remember where I have gone over 1000 is a paper in fifth grade on an important American historical figure (I was assigned Ben Franklin) that I got an entire semester to do.

I have participated in one tutorial on how to write essays at university, which was essentially for the useful things that high school didn't teach me.
I don't have a problem with writing large amounts, so long as I have something to write about.
The hardest part for me is transforming the separate paragraphs into a presentable structure.

I'm in the physical sciences, so there's no essay writing thankfully. It's more report styled. Currently I'm working on the main third year research report, and that's 4000 words.

The most brilliant thing about doing maths and sciences for A-level is that you basically never have to write essays. EVER. Except for three bits of physics coursework with kind of get on your nerves and one personal statement which REALLY gets on your nerves. But they're not too daunting. It's great how flexible the UK education system is, so you don't have to write essays if you don't want to.